Liverpool 2-0 Union SG: Reds earn successive Europa League wins

Will Rooney reports from Anfield.

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00:00 Full-time here at Anfield, we're going to finish Liverpool 2-0.

00:04 Union SG nails it for the second success of a win for Liverpool in the Europa League.

00:08 Top of Group A, clear of third place by five points.

00:12 They're very much on track to qualify for the next stage of the competition.

00:16 Not a vintage display, it must be said.

00:18 I think you look at the game, you think of a Europa League group game,

00:23 it's dull in large aspects, to be honest with you.

00:25 Liverpool not at their best.

00:27 They started quite well, they had enough chances in the early stages.

00:30 Mo Salah was put through on goal as his effort kept out.

00:34 Darwin Nunes, don't know why we missed it from three yards out.

00:38 Tees up by Salah, dragged it wide.

00:40 I was actually surprised to see Nunes and Salah start for Liverpool,

00:43 because I think most expected that they'd gone the bench.

00:45 Nunes obviously been carrying a little knee injury,

00:48 and Salah, you'd expect them to be on the bench and kept fresh for Sunday.

00:54 They tripped it right, but no, they couldn't play 45 minutes.

00:57 Finally, the breakthrough came on the 42-minute run, Graeme Baker.

01:00 Graeme's first goal since he joined the club from Bayern Munich in summer.

01:04 Trent Alexander-Arnold, he was hitting plenty of pace.

01:08 The Union keeper couldn't hold us, to be fair.

01:10 He had a good game, that was his only mistake.

01:12 And there was Graeme Baker's follow-up and finished 1-0.

01:17 In the second half, Liverpool were OK.

01:19 They went through the motions a little bit.

01:21 They had a couple of efforts, Djoko Djota, Hedder, that were saved.

01:27 The effort is OK, Union had a spell.

01:30 In stoppage time, it was Djota who got the second for Liverpool.

01:35 Liverpool hit Union on the break, and Djota rounds it off.

01:38 A real calm finish, to be fair to him.

01:41 Liverpool, as I say, they pick up the three points.

01:44 No major talking points tonight.

01:47 Gavine Callagher picked up a knee injury, so he was ruled out of action.

01:53 Apart from that, not a fantastic display.

01:56 Some good displays in it.

01:58 Graeme Baker, really, really good.

02:00 He's really thrust himself into the frame to start against Bayern Munich.

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02:23 Absolutely immaculate.

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